Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-04

TIE order issued by George Bentley. bar
ring out colored troops from the interna-
tional military encampment. to De neld At
Chicago in October, has been recalled oy
request OF the board OF managers Oh the en-
/ terprise.
| Catholic Diocese of Wichita, Kan, died on
the Goth.
| BRAKEMEN on the New Mexico, Arizona
| & Sonora railroad went on a strike at No
gaIos, A. T., on the 25th. Trains were tied
up. ,r:h -;
lively states that he saw McGarigle, the
missing Chicago boodler, at Sault Ste
| Marie on the Canadian side two nights
| after McGarigle's escape He claims to
| know McGarigle's face and has no doubt OF
the identity of the man.
| A DISPATCH from Cincinnati says: The
Riverside iron and steel works, w. E. Har-
ris, superintendent, and A. L. p. Gaare,
| secretary, have assigned to Jonn .. Con-
ners. Liabilities, 500, 900.
| BY an accidental fire in Clinton, Ia, the
other day, the Baptist Church and four
| residences were burned and other places
damaged.
EIGHTEEN men on construction train
were killed on the 9th by a collision on the
! Chicago & Alton at Hopedale, twenty-five
ers were seriously and fatally hurt.
| D. r. ANTHONY, editor of the Leaven-
worth (Kan.) Times, was horsewhipped on
the 9th by w. II. Bond, councilman from
! the Second ward of that city. Bond had
been called scoundrel, dog, snake, skunk
| and other choice names.
LoRENz KRUG, on trial at Chicago for
poisoning his niece, Lucy Heidelmeyer,
was found guilty, the jury returning YER
dict fixing his punishment at eighteen
years in the penitentiary. Krug was also
suspected of having poisoned each OF his
three wives.
ARMoUR's new beef house at the stock
yards, Chicago, was burned on the morn
ing of the 9th. Loss, $500, 900; insurance,
1896, 600.
THE Citizens Savings Bank, of Leaven-
worth, Kan, was closed on the morning OF
the 9th. The liabilities were 5000,
mostly small deposits; assets, $40, 900. The
failure was due to the defalcations of r. P.
Clements, president and cashier, who EN-
bezzled ISL, 900 and then fed.
JOHN D. PERRY. of the Missouri Central
railroad, who was in New York recently,
denied the rumor of any consolidation of
his road with the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe.
THE Ohio Repu bl1canS in session at Tole-
do on the 2Sth, nominated the following
ticket: Governor, j. B. Foraker; Lieuten-
ant-Governor, Captain w. G. Lyon; Su-
preme Judge Qong term), W. T. Speer;
Suprme Judge (short term), F. j. Dick
man; State Auditor, E. w. Poe; State
Treasurer, j. c. Brown; Attorney-Generai,
D. K. Watson; Member of Board of Public
Works, c. A. Flickinger. Resolutions en-
dorsing Senator Sherman for the Pres
idency were adopted.
BY the burning of bridge at Franconi,
near Needles, N. M, recently, a freight
train was wrecked and burned upon the
Atlantic q Pacific road. The engineer and
brakeman were fatally injured and the fire
man was instantly killed.
THE SOUTH.
THE Southern Passenger Committee,
composed of some twenty-five or thirty
general passenger agents, will meet at
Huntsville. Ala, August 10.
DICK HOOVER, the negro who outraged a
negro woman near Fosterville, Tenn, re-
Gently, was surrounded by body of negro
men next day two and half miles from
Fosterville and riddled with bullets.
CATTLEMEN in Dallas and San Antonio,
Tex, deny that the trail to Wyoming has
been abandoned and all the cattle ordered
| back to Texas.
IT is reported in Little Rock, Ark, that
the Frisco road will soon build line
through the gold fields to that city.
The employees of the Eclipse wooden mill,
Louisville, KY, struck recently on a de-
mand for ten per cent increas, in wages.
KERNELLING's powder mill at Warren, n.
c., was destroyed by the explosion of ton
and half of powder the other morning.
THE Henrietta (Tex.) National Bank has
closed its doors. The shut down was on
| account of the recent failures in the Texas
cattle trade
WILLIAM MORRISON, Of Eureka Springs,
Ark, was hanged the other evening by
crowd of his neighbors, who surrounded
the Jail in which he was lodged on the
charge of maltreating his two young
| daughters.
was assassinated by unknown parties near
| Killeen, Tex, recently. The cause was
| supposed to be an old neighborly grudge.
THE grand State rally of anti-prohibi-
tionists began at Fort Worth, Tex, on the
| 26th. Forty thousand persons were said
| to be present.
| A HEAVY storm prevailed on the Gulf and
Mobile bay on the 9th. It was feared that
the schooner White Sea, which put to sea
in spite of cautionary signals, had been
| caught in the worst of the storm.
A DELEGATION from Lynchburg, Va,
| headed by Senator Daniel, called on the
President recently and invited him to at
tend the State fair to be held at Lynch
| burg in October next. The President
4 PAOAii " SOuSiuST IH0 ana SAID
ne would give them decided answer at a
| later day.
A MOB at Redan, Ca, the other day
| lynched Reuben johnson (colored). He
had outraged the person of Mrs. James
Rush. Reuben Cole (colored) was also
| lynched for the same offense in Surrey
4 County, Va.
MARYLAND Democrats at Baltimore on the
9th nominated Elhu E. jackson for Gov
ernor; w. +. White, Attorney General; L.
Y. Baugmann, Comptroller.
WHILE party of men were engaged in
| pitching dollars in the rear of G. W. Phin-
ney's store at Bertram, Tex, the other day
lightning struck and killed NJ. B. Sinclair
| and u. A. Phinney, and mortally injured
/ (AlllnNn ford